In The Monolith we are introduced to Alice Cohen a down-&-out ex-junkie who inherits a house in Brooklyn from her deceased grandmother Alice discovers her diary & begins to read the tale of a lost love & revenge that begins in the factories of New York during the depression & shows the creation of a monster bent on revenge for the slaying of a good honest man Originally published by DC comics but collected here for the first time The Monolith features an introduction by the legendary Jim Steranko & the amazing art of Phil Winslade ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Screen legends Vincent Price John Carradine & Donald Pleasence are just three of the stars of this darkly humorous cult horror gem Earning Hammer Films veteran Roy Ward Baker the Audience Award at Rome&s Fantafestival in 1981 & featuring music by The Pretty Things UB40 & BA Robertson The Monster Club is featured here in a High Definition transfer made from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Pausing to admire a window display of his own books distinguished horror writer Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes is attacked by a desperate vampire Eramus faint from lack of sustenance Assuring the startled victim that the neck bite was not deep the grateful vampire takes him to the Monster Club wherein Eramus explains to Ronald the hierarchy & basic rules of Monsterdom & illustrates his theme with three tales of toecurling terror ...

Hugely fun space adventure from international bestseller Cornelia Funke with full colour illustrations by award-winning Elys Dolan Zaleb is fascinated by the solar system & when she gets her very own spaceship for her birthday she decides to go on an adventure! She's always loved the tales about the little blue planet called Earth & the monsters that live there so she decides to catch one to be her pet But Izzy isn't about to be anybody's pet! Can the two become friends? High quality cream paper & a special easy-to-read font ensure a smooth read for all ...

Join a mad professor's forgotten creation as he risks it all to save his friends When an unexpected visitor crash-lands on top of Castle Grotteskew Stitch Head knows it can only mean trouble Eccentric explorer Dotty Dauntless has bet her fortune on delivering a monster to the Venture Club
- the problem is all the castle's monsters are as meek as kittens
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Monsters are real & it turns out that there is good money to be made killing them! Welcome to Monster Hunter International! Introducing the first three entries in Larry Correia Monster Hunter series described as Dirty Harry meets Twilight
- Monster Hunter International Monster Hunter Vendetta & Monster Hunter Alpha
- in one huge volume!

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In 1931 Universal Studios released Dracula starring Bela Lugosi This box office success was followed by a string of films featuring macabre characters & chilling atmospherics including Frankenstein The Mummy & The Invisible Man With each new film Universal established its place in the Hollywood firmament as the leading producer of horror films a status it enjoyed for more than twenty years In The Monster Movies of Universal Studios James L Neibaur examines the key films produced by the studio from the early 1930s through the mid-1950s In each entry the author recounts the movie's production provides critical commentary considers the film's commercial reception & offers an overall assessment of the movie's significance Neibaur also examines the impact these films had on popular culture an influence that resonates in the cinema of fear today From the world premiere of Dracula to the 1956 release of The Creature Walks among Us Universal excelled at scaring viewers of all ages-and even elicited a few chuckles along the way by pitting their iconic creatures against the comedic pair of Abbott & Costello The Monster Movies of Universal Studios captures the thrills of these films making this book a treat for fans of the golden age of horror cinema ...

Monster Planet here we come! One morning at school Natalie is feeling bored
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Complete collection of Tolkien's essays including two on Beowulf which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings The seven essays' by JRR Tolkien assembled in this new paperback edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; & while they mostly arose out of Tolkien's work in medieval literature they are accessible to all Two of them are concerned with Beowulf including the well-known lecture whose title is taken for this book & one with Sir Gawain & the Green Knight given in the University of Glasgow in 1953 Also included in this volume is the lecture English & Welsh; the Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford in 1959; & a paper on Invented Languages delivered in 1931 with exemplification from poems in the Elvish tongues Most famous of all is On Fairy-Stories a discussion of the nature of fairy-tales & fantasy which gives insight into Tolkien's approach to the whole genre The pieces in this collection cover a period of nearly thirty years beginning six years before the publication of The Hobbit with a unique academic' lecture on his invention (calling it A Secret Vice) & concluding with his farewell to professorship five years after the publication of The Lord of the Rings ...

A stunning operatic & epic drama like no other Meet Hel an ordinary teenager
- & goddess of the Underworld Why is life so
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' Before you reject me before you hate me remember I never asked to be Hel's queen' But being a normal teenager wasn't an option either Now she's stuck ruling the underworld For eternity She doesn't want your pity But she does demand that you listen It's only fair you hear her side of the story It didn't have to be like this ...